Balcom v. Hiller’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2019
2 district · 11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft v. Schlunk · 33 Cal. App. 3d 808 - Shoei Kako Co. v. Superior Court · 10 Cal. App. 4th 1043 - Honda Motor Co. v. Superior Court · 123 Cal. App. 3d 755 - Dr. Ing HCF Porsche AG v. Superior Court · General Electric Credit Corp. v. Yasparro
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“'great weight' " to the Executive Branch's interpretation of a treaty. ( Water Splash , supra , 137 S.Ct. at p. 1512 .) Applying these principles, we conclude that plaintiffs were permitted to use an agent to serve Whyenlee personally in Hong Kong without first making a request to Hong Kong's Central Authority. We begin with the language of Hong Kong's declaration. Hong Kong's declaration is nearly identical to the United Kingdom's own declaration, which states: "With reference to Article 10(b) and (c) of the Convention, documents for service through official channels will be accepted in the United Kingdom only by the Central or additional authorities and only from judicial, consular or diplomatic officers of other Contracting States[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Provided the State of destination does not object, the present Convention shall not interfere with [¶] (a) the freedom to send judicial documents, by postal channels, directly to persons abroad, [¶] (b) the freedom of judicial officers, officials or other competent persons of the State of origin to effect service of judicial documents directly through the judicial officers, officials or other competent persons of the State of destination, [¶] (c) the freedom of any person interested in a judicial proceeding to effect service of judicial documents directly through the judicial officers, officials or other competent persons of the State of destination." (Hague Service Convention, supra, 20 U.S.T. 361, Art. 10.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Articles 2 through 6 of the Convention establish a system whereby each participating country will organize and designate a 'Central Authority' to receive, and to reject or to execute, and to certify requests for service of process from parties in other participating states.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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